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Direct linkMatsui, Tomoko; Yamamoto, Taeko; McCagg, Peter – Cognitive Development, 2006
In the study reported here, Japanese-speaking children aged 3-6 were confronted with making choices based on conflicting input from speakers who varied in the degree of certainty and the quality of evidence they possessed for their opinions. Certainty and evidentiality are encoded in Japanese both in high-frequency, closed-class, sentence-final…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Role, Cognitive Development, Social Cognition
Theakston, Anna L. – Cognitive Development, 2004
Between the ages of 3 and 7 years, children have been observed to produce verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (e.g., Don't giggle me; Bowerman, 1982, 1988; Pinker, 1989). A number of recent studies have begun to find evidence that the precise distributional properties of the input may provide an important part of the explanation for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Verbs, Persuasive Discourse
